The D1A playoff matchups are out.

Interestingly, the rankings provided a perfect East-West split (eight teams in the Top 16 are from the East, and eight from the West). That made creating the bracket a lot easier for everyone. 

While the rankings are important in creating these seedings, they aren’t so important that it matters whether your team is #3 or #4. It matters where you fit among the East or West teams.

So, this is the regional ranking from D1A:

East:
1. Navy
2. Life
3. Lindenwood
4. Arkansas State
5. Davenport
6. Mount St. Mary’s
7. Army
8. Mary Washington

West: 
1. Saint Mary’s
2. Central Washington
3. BYU
4. Cal
5. Cal Poly
6. UCLA
7. Arizona
8. Grand Canyon

(These seedings certainly differ from GRR’s rankings, which had Life ahead of Navy, but if you look at East-only games Navy has the head-to-head over Life. GRR also had UMW over MSM.)

So the playoff matchups are as follows (games paired together below will have the winners face off a week later in the regional semis).